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About 24% of POST /api/observability/cloud responses in production were 429 last week (Axiom cmux-prod-otel-traces, 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-14: 12,136 of 52,942 sampled route spans; 0.7% on 2026-10-06). The route span could not say which limit refused. Measured from the child spans of each refused request:

  • All 12,136 were refusals from the Vercel firewall rule cmux-analytics. None came from the per-account byte budget. CMUX_CLOUD_DIAGNOSTICS_RATE_LIMIT_ID points at the same rule as /api/analytics/events, /api/install-events and /api/observability/mobile-network.
  • That rule is 600 / 10 min, keyed by ip. For a checkRateLimit call, that IP is the function's connection, not the client's. Rules keyed by header:x-vercel-rate-limit-key (cmux-device-registry, cmux-client-config) get the client IP from the SDK and refuse heavy sessions about 0% of the time. cmux-analytics refuses every heavy session 12% to 32% of the time, and sessions with 1 to 5 uploads in the week 22.7% of the time. A probe from an unrelated IP at the same time got 204.
  • The refusals are not client floods. Sampled app sessions upload at p50 1, p99 4 and max 10 requests per minute, far under 60 per minute per client IP.
  • Retried batches are mostly not lost. The Mac uploader keeps a refused batch and retries after 60·n seconds, at most 600. The cost is delay: client-span delivery lag p90 went from 5 to 11 minutes and p99 up to 13 hours. A heavy account loses data when its queue reaches 2,000 entries, because the uploader then trims successful spans. Clients reported 4.8k to 44k dropped spans a day (sum of cmux.telemetry.dropped_count). 67% of that (75,649 of 112,746) came from one exec-heavy account. The real number is higher, because ingest discarded a drop report that rode on a sampled-out poll span.

This PR does not change the firewall rule, which lives outside the repository (see below). It makes every 429 attributable and keeps the evidence that matters:

  • Every refusal is countable despite the 2% head sampling of the route span. A refusal emits a root span cmux.cloud_diagnostics.refusal (cmux.priority: true), which is always kept. It carries cmux.telemetry.refusal (ingress_rate_limited plus cmux.telemetry.rate_limit_rule, account_byte_budget, event_conflict, storage_unavailable, or a parse refusal), the counts, cmux.telemetry.stored_spans, the keyed cmux.account_key (the same HMAC as exported diagnostics) and cmux.client.instance_id. A caller can repeat firewall and malformed-body refusals without backing off, so those are coalesced: at most one span per cause, rule and account every 10 s on each instance, with cmux.telemetry.refusal_count.
  • When routine success detail has filled an account's 256 KiB minute budget, a batch still stores its failure, timeout, cancellation and sign-in records within a 128 KiB reserve. It commits them, schedules a drain, and still answers 429. The client's retry is deduplicated, so those records are durable on the first attempt. An account that sends only failures is capped at 384 KiB/min.
  • Ingest sampling keeps a sampled-out poll span that carries droppedCount, unweighted, so client-side loss is counted.

Change needed outside the repo, in the Vercel firewall: set rule rule_cmux_analytics_rate_limit_Lly7ZO (cmux-analytics) keys from ["ip"] to ["header:x-vercel-rate-limit-key"] and keep 600 / 600 s. That limit is about 15× the busiest observed session and stays an abuse cap. The alternative is a dedicated cmux-cloud-diagnostics rule keyed the same way, with CMUX_CLOUD_DIAGNOSTICS_RATE_LIMIT_ID pointed at it.

Testing

  • Behavior tests at the real ingest handler with Postgres and the OpenTelemetry route span, in web/tests/cloud-diagnostics-db-behavior.test.ts. They ran on a Freestyle VM with Postgres and migrations applied: CMUX_DB_TEST=1 bun test tests/cloud-diagnostics-db-behavior.test.ts.
    • The tests use the production trace sampler with its base ratio at 0, so they assert what Axiom actually receives.
    • Red on the base commit (first commit 822845510b): the 3 new tests fail and the 10 existing tests pass. Green at head: 13 of 13 pass.
    • In CI, web-database-tests is skipped for this PR, so the Freestyle run is the only execution of these tests.
  • bun test tests/cloud-telemetry.test.ts: 33 of 33 pass. ESLint on the changed files is clean.
  • tsgo --noEmit reported errors only in two test files that import the unsynced workers/ directory. No changed file had errors. CI runs the full typecheck and the complexity gate.

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Proof

Server telemetry only. After deploy, the Axiom route-span refusal breakdown is the proof.

…ilures and drop reports

Red on main at the real handler with Postgres: the byte-budget and ingress
429s carry no refusal code, routine detail that fills the minute refuses a
failure batch, and a sampled-out poll that reports queue drops is discarded.
…ast the budget

Production 429s on POST /api/observability/cloud all come from the
shared cmux-analytics firewall rule, which is keyed by connection IP;
the route span could not say so. The route span now records the refusal
cause (ingress_rate_limited with the rule ID, account_byte_budget,
event_conflict, storage_unavailable), the keyed account hash and the
install ID.

Batches with a failure, timeout, cancellation or sign-in record get a
128 KiB reserve above the 256 KiB routine minute budget, so routine
success detail cannot refuse them. A sampled-out poll span that carries
the client's dropped count is now stored, since it is the only record
of that loss.
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Cloud telemetry now records ingress and storage outcomes with additional span attributes. Per-account storage limits vary by span priority. Successful poll spans that report client-side queue drops can be retained even when their traces are not sampled.

Changes: Cloud telemetry diagnostics

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Ingress and upload outcome attribution
web/app/api/observability/cloud/route.ts, web/services/observability/cloudTelemetryExport.ts, web/services/observability/cloudTelemetryIngest.ts, web/tests/cloud-diagnostics-db-behavior.test.ts
The route passes the configured rate-limit rule ID to the ingest handler. The handler records ingress refusals, account and instance attributes, and storage refusal codes. A shared HMAC helper supplies account keys. Tests cover refusal outcomes and captured attributes.
Priority-based storage budgets
web/services/observability/cloudTelemetryRepository.ts, web/tests/cloud-diagnostics-db-behavior.test.ts
The repository uses a routine limit of 262,144 bytes per minute and a 131,072-byte priority reserve. A pending row is priority when its outcome is not success or it has an auth value. Tests cover routine-budget exhaustion and acceptance of failure events until the reserve is exhausted.
Poll sampling with reported drops
web/services/observability/cloudTelemetrySampling.ts, web/tests/cloud-diagnostics-db-behavior.test.ts
An unsampled successful poll span is retained without a sample weight when it reports a positive droppedCount. Tests verify retention of that span and dropping of a silent poll span.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CloudRoute
  participant CloudTelemetryIngest
  participant CloudTelemetryRepository
  participant OpenTelemetry
  CloudRoute->>CloudTelemetryIngest: Pass ingress result
  CloudTelemetryIngest->>CloudTelemetryRepository: Store parsed spans
  CloudTelemetryRepository-->>CloudTelemetryIngest: Return accepted count or storage error
  CloudTelemetryIngest->>OpenTelemetry: Record upload outcome and refusal span
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Resolve the quota test’s rollover sensitivity and enforce the byte limit on first insert before merging. Mixed batches no longer charge routine spans against the priority reserve.

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if (pending.length === 0) return rows.length;
const bytes = pending.reduce((sum, row) => sum + Buffer.byteLength(row.payload), 0);
const minute = Math.floor(Date.now() / 60_000);
const limit = pending.some((row) => row.priority) ? CLOUD_DIAGNOSTICS_PRIORITY_BYTES_PER_MINUTE : CLOUD_DIAGNOSTICS_BYTES_PER_MINUTE;

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reserve the extra bytes for priority spans. If a batch contains one failure and many routine spans, pending.some grants the higher limit to every byte in that batch. Repeated mixed batches can fill the reserve with routine detail. A later failure-only batch then receives 429 despite having little priority data. Track routine and priority usage separately, and enforce the routine cap on routine bytes in mixed batches.

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Update the batch byte-limit logic around `pending` to track routine and priority
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for (let attempt = 0; routine.status === 202 && attempt < 40; attempt += 1) {
routine = await upload(owner, Array.from({ length: 40 }, () => telemetrySpan()));
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Control the quota minute in this test. acceptCloudTelemetry selects its minute with Date.now(). If database uploads span enough minute boundaries, this bounded loop can end with status 202 and fail the 429 assertion on correct code. The failure-only fill loop at lines 237–239 has the same dependency. Inject a quota clock or otherwise fix the minute for both cases. As per coding guidelines, “A test must not depend on real wall-clock time.”

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Control the quota clock used by acceptCloudTelemetry in this test so both the
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…dence from over-budget batches

Review follow-up. The route span is head-sampled at 2%, so a refusal now
also emits one always-kept cmux.cloud_diagnostics.refusal span with the
cause, firewall rule, account key, install ID and counts. The firewall
rule travels as the ingress refusal value instead of a span side effect.

The byte budget no longer lets routine spans spend the reserve: a batch
over the routine budget stores only its failure, timeout, cancellation and
sign-in records within the reserve, commits them, and still answers 429,
so the client's retry deduplicates them. The install ID is labeled
cmux.client.instance_id so it cannot be confused with the server's
service.instance.id. Sampling docs name the drop-report exception.

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insert into cloud_diagnostic_budgets (user_id, minute, bytes) values (${userId}, ${minute}, ${bytes})
on conflict (user_id, minute) do update set bytes = cloud_diagnostic_budgets.bytes + excluded.bytes
where cloud_diagnostic_budgets.bytes + excluded.bytes <= ${limit} returning bytes

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Enforce the byte limit on every budget insert.

The HTTP handler caps raw uploads at 64 KiB, but acceptCloudTelemetry is exported and accepts a CloudTelemetryBatch directly. A direct caller can provide a batch whose serialized payload exceeds limit. The WHERE clause applies only to the conflict-update path, so the first insert stores the over-limit batch and reports success.

Reject bytes > limit before the SQL statement.

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       const bytes = charged.reduce((sum, row) => sum + Buffer.byteLength(row.payload), 0);
+      if (bytes > limit) return false;
       const quota = await tx.execute(sql`
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…ept from refused batches

Second review follow-up. A firewall refusal runs before authentication, so
an always-kept span per refusal let an anonymous flood become kept Axiom
spans. Firewall and malformed-body refusals now emit at most one span per
cause, rule and account per 10 s on each instance, with
cmux.telemetry.refusal_count. Budget, conflict and storage refusals stay
one span each. Evidence stored from a budget-refused batch schedules a
drain, and the refusal reports it as cmux.telemetry.stored_spans instead
of accepted_spans.
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Round 1 (head 1ede0f1)

  • P1: The route span is head-sampled at 2%, so about 98% of 429s would still have no name. Fixed in 1f66580: each refusal emits an always-kept root span cmux.cloud_diagnostics.refusal (cmux.priority: true). The tests now use the production sampler with its ratio at 0.
  • P2: Routine spans in a mixed batch could spend the reserve. Fixed: when a batch is over the routine budget, only its priority rows are stored within budget plus reserve. They are committed, then the batch answers 429. The retry is deduplicated.
  • P2: Failures queued behind a refused routine batch got no help from the reserve. Fixed by the same change: evidence in any refused batch is stored on the first attempt. The client still sends its queue in order; a client change to put failures first is a possible follow-up.
  • P2: The sampling docs were out of date, and dropped_count must never be multiplied by the sample weight. Fixed in the docs.
  • P2: service.instance.id collided with the server's resource attribute. Renamed to cmux.client.instance_id.

Round 2 (head 1f66580)

  • Confirmed correct: a failed budget charge leaves no partial state, the commit happens before the throw, a retry is deduplicated without a 409, and root: true is required for the sampler to keep the span.
  • P1: A firewall refusal comes before authentication, so one kept span per refusal let an anonymous flood become kept spans. Fixed in the next commit: firewall and malformed-body refusals are coalesced to at most one span per cause, rule and account every 10 s on each instance, with cmux.telemetry.refusal_count. Budget, conflict and storage refusals stay one span each, because clients back off for at least 60 s after them. A test covers the coalescing.
  • P2: Evidence stored from a refused batch skipped scheduleDrain. Fixed: those records now schedule a drain.
  • P2: accepted_spans on a budget refusal also counted rows stored by earlier uploads. Fixed: that refusal reports accepted_spans: 0 and cmux.telemetry.stored_spans.

No open findings. The DB behavior tests ran on a Freestyle VM with Postgres: 13 of 13 pass, and the new tests failed on the base commit. All 64 CI checks pass.

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Merge receipt for 8ead705b87, merged 2026-10-14 05:13:24 UTC

  • Not verified at merge: Web complexity (failure)
  • Verified: backend migrations applied, ci-status, CI fast guards, CI timing, Fast static checks, guards (17), plan, Web complexity candidate, Web status, Web tests (1/4), Web tests (2/4), Web tests (3/4), and 7 more
  • Skipped by policy: agent-session-web-resources, apply-production, apply-staging, browser, Claude wrapper regressions, diff-sidecar-check, Dogfood build #​${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}, GhosttyKit release check, linux-preflight, macos, macOS admission gate, react-apps-check, and 6 more
  • Full suite: runs on main after merge.

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